| Cardiff Blitz | |||||||
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| Part of the Strategic bombing campaign of World War II | |||||||
 Area of damage caused in Cathays by two parachute landmines killing 23 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Nazi Germany |
 United Kingdom | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown | 355 | ||||||
 | This article is missing information about see TP; article missing specifics about raids. (January 2023) |
The Cardiff Blitz (Welsh: Blitz Caerdydd); refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II. Between 1940 and the final raid on the city in March 1944 approximately 2,100 bombs fell, killing 355 people.[1]
Cardiff Docks became a strategic bombing target for German Luftwaffe (the Nazi German air force) as it was one of the biggest coal ports in the world.[2][3] Consequently, it and the surrounding area were heavily bombed. Llandaff Cathedral, amongst many other civilian buildings caught in the raids, was damaged by the bombing in 1941.[4]
- ^ BBC News | Cardiff's 'worst night' of Blitz remembered 70 years on
- ^ "Coal Exchange to 'stock exchange'". BBC News Wales. 26 April 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ "Rhagor, Cardiff – Coal and Shipping Metropolis of the World". Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. 18 April 2007. Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ "History of Llandaff Cathedral". Llandaffcathedral.org.uk. Retrieved 4 April 2008.